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I was half shocked half bundled over with laughter as I read the latest news articles in my email. The above advert was placed around the web as part of an experiment by a security professional.

The results were quite intersting to say the least. The ad was viewed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. Now tell me this, who would voluntarily want to infect their PC with a virus? I know I definately would not be one.

The article stated that no PC's were harmed/infected during the experiment as the website was benign and contained no harmful script or code. The purpose of the experiment was to test the barriers to acceptance of Google's adwords campaign as well as the safety of the .info domain's who are supposedly notorious for malware (harmful code and script -viruses).

Read the full article here.